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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 1m

Brad Lander was very overlooked. Moderate but not a Trump lackey.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 3h

It depends on the location. A dog would enjoy a small rural protest: the center of Manhattan, not so much.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 3h

It's because they live in a very tight information bubble in which they are shown exactly what confirms their worldview and is to the advantage of the billionaire owners of that media.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 3h

That really does not clarify things. I’m not vilifying you, your post was ambiguous.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 3h

I wish building big statues was the worst they were doing.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 3h

In vino veritas though...

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

I love airports.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not sure what Daredevil fights these days since Hell's Kitchen is all restaurants. Maybe corrupt food critics.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

... and filmed somewhere where they actually have back alleys.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

It still looks like that but apartments cost $3 million.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

You took a flag from a grave???

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

They will drive all the way to Ohio to interview a Republican voter because Staten Island does not exist.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

The math does not math even if Sliwa dropped out and every single one of his voters voted Cuomo instead (they wouldn't, many of them are actual Republicans and loathe Cuomo)

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 4h

Note that it is valid to block people trolling from the left as well as the right.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 5h

If they are drug smugglers or refugee smugglers, they will be paraded all over the place. If they are fishermen they will be quietly disappeared.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 5h

This is why educated people are freaking out so hard, because they've read things like the diary of Anne Frank or Maus and are more familiar with the way Nazis operated BEFORE they came into power. Average people just know about the tanks and marching, and we aren't doing that.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 5h

It was but a fling.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 5h

They are thinking that if we knew what they were doing they would be in danger for their lives, so they are jumpy. But liberals don't think that way, they do not do the stochastic terror thing. They are peaceful.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 5h

They heard that the voters are angry about so many politicians being over 80, and are responding to that feedback.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 6h

They are trying hard for him to not end up as the first Royal in prison since they closed the Tower of London for its previous purpose. They might have to reopen it just for him.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 6h

That explains why they are 100% completely chill with waddling about between our feet. They are expecting someone to pick them up and put them into a dovecote with a feeder full of millet Any Day Now.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 7h

You have to show ID to buy Amtrak tickets in the USA if you are paying cash.

Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve just turned it off for good. Easier than having to remember it.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 7h

I think they have literal incentives, like dark money donating a lot of money to the most right-wing podcasts.

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · 7h

You can just set it to always require passcodes

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